TUES: The Development and Assessment of a New Test and Product Engineering Certificate Program

罗斯-胡尔曼理工学院正在与当地行业合作，开发测试和产品工程方面的证书课程。半导体行业需要测试和产品工程师，以确保微小的制造缺陷不会影响集成电路芯片的性能。半导体行业的惊人进步带来了性能令人难以置信的器件，但代价是增加了测试难度。测试和产品工程师的学习曲线漫长而缓慢，很少有大学为学生提供这一领域的背景知识。为了满足这一行业需求，该项目正在开发两门带有密集动手实验室组件的测试和产品工程课程，以支持测试和产品工程的证书计划。强大的行业投入确保了课程和实验室与行业需求相关。教育研究专业知识确保课程和实验室提高学生的高阶思维能力、创造力和解决问题的能力。该项目正在应用一种新颖的、以行业为中心的评估策略，以确定这些课程是否达到了减少学生在集成电路行业发挥生产力所需时间的目标。正在开发材料，以允许其他大学采用这些课程，即使它们没有进行动手实验所需的昂贵实验室设备。

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is partnering with local industry in developing a certificate program in Test and Product Engineering. Test and product engineers are needed in the semiconductor industry to ensure that small manufacturing defects do not impact the performance of integrated-circuit chips. Staggering improvements in the semiconductor industry have resulted in devices with incredible performance at the cost of increasing test difficulty. The learning curve for test and product engineers is long and slow, and few universities provide students with background in this area.To address this industrial need, this project is developing two Test and Product Engineering courses with an intense hands-on laboratory component to support a certificate program in Test and Product Engineering. Strong industrial input is ensuring that the courses and laboratories are relevant to industry needs. Educational research expertise is ensuring that the courses and laboratories are improving students' higher-order thinking skills, creativity and problem-solving abilities. The project is applying a novel, industry-centered assessment strategy to determine whether the courses meet their goal of reducing the time it takes for students to be productive in the integrated-circuit industry. Materials are being developed to allow other universities to adopt these courses even if they do not have the expensive lab equipment necessary to perform the hands-on labs.